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This is the last of the line….so far! This was Bill’s Pro Stock hemi Duster at Dover. He and his partner and me, to a lesser extent, built this car. No fancy chassis shops and race car boutiques for us back then.
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This is the car that there seems to be great confusion over. This is a ’64 Plymouth we built from a wreck to replace the hacked up “Black Arrow” shell. Far from a repudiation of Doc, that’s the way funnies were done back then , quick and dirty. We wanted to run Super Stock; so we built this and got rid of the hulk of the original car. We changed the rear panel to look like a ’65 and hung all the acid dipped steel on it and away we went. It didn’t even have the original hemi in it, which we kicked a rod out of at Conn in ’68. This had a Ramchargers built hemi in it. That’s my dad with the sprayer in his hand, and Rick Redfern of Kelly Motors in vails Gate with his back to teh camera. He ran the SC/Rambler on the trailer behind our car in the picture. Towed the dang thing with that little Jeepster too, and was that ever squirelley!
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The front end of what was really the “Storm King 3”. This is the clone car which is now in Conn.
Jackman, the name came from Storm King mountain. It may even have been our Mom who suggested it. It has a local connection to our home, and a powerful image at the same time. Bill and I used to hike up Storm King pretty often when we were growing up. I was surprised when I realized our fire departments there in Cornwall were called “Storm King” Engine company.
I really don’t think the Duster was ever in any shop in the Village since it was sponsored by Newburgh Park Motors, and that’s also where Bill worked for a time. Most of the work on the car was done at the dealers in off hours. (bill should be telling these stories).
Yes the originall “Black Arrow was scrapped around ’71, maybe ’72, but somewhere thereabouts.
Here’s some more to confuse everyone. The engine in this car in the picture later went into the pro stock Duster. The engine in that red hemi Coronet in the background later went into the ’65 in this picture and is the motor that was in it when we sold it to Doc.
BTW: Those are REAL American magnesium wheels on the car
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More of Storm King 3
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Here’s a few of the wrecked ’64 undergoing its transformation into a ’65 990 car. That is the factory nomenclature, not bracket ET, for the hemi super stock cars for you of the great unwashed GM persuation. that barn was our race shop in Vails Gate.
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And here’s the moth emerging out of its cocoon, O.K., its a rebuilt wreck seeing the light of day for the first time after a rebuild.
It was a pretty clean car when we got done with it. Everything underneath was light blue like under the hood, suspension just all black, but finished. Everything else our usual metallic blue and white. I’ve got more good stuff, like two of teh Storm King’s together in one picture, but I need to have them sized to fit. Waitin’ for my son to help me out there.
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